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I've seen Man Utd fan accounts spin this as great for their side and Newcastle accounts spin it as great for us. From my point of view, the email to Berrada predates his gardening leave and he broke confidentiality. It's tapping up. So why would Newcastle acquiesce to their lowball demands?

It's not about the money, not really (aside from the boost it will give to our PSR envelope). It's more about showing that we're no longer a club that will roll over when a bigger club wants something from us. Not just Ashworth, but players too. All we've heard for the past few weeks is how...

Looks like there's proof of tapping up. Dan Ashworth has been emailing Berrada (at an INEOS email address) before the formal approach happened. Can't imagine it will stop Ashworth from joining Man Utd, but it gives us more leverage in terms of compensation.

Happy to be corrected, but from what I remember from the time, we were up front with Brighton about our interest? But you're right, we paid a fee to bring his period of Gardening Leave short, we didn't wait until the end of his contract, apologies.

Seems the Man Utd fans are apoplectic that we're asking for compensation and a period of gardening leave. As if we should roll over for them. Such rank entitlement. I don't think we'll get the £20m and 2yrs, but that at least shows we're not just going to cowtow to them. I mean, from what I...